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The book’s purpose is a bit muddled so far. I’m not yet convinced that math is metaphorically grounded in embodied experience. At best the authors have shown that bodily experience coherently overlaps math, but in a way that accounts more for rational numbers and arithmetic. Even there causal directionality is hard to show. Does math derive from embodied experience or does embodied sense derive from math?
— Mar 29, 2025 09:01AM
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is on page 325 of 512
I’m growing convinced of the basic point that (some) mathematics is developed according to conceptual models that have metaphoric expression and that changes in metaphoric expression can precede and drive changes in mathematical practice. I’m getting a little itchy for some implications at this point.
— Apr 01, 2025 06:14AM
